Joe DeCeault

Joe DeCeault is an award-winning producer for WBEZ’s web team where he heads up WBEZ podcasts. Before then, he was a producer with our midday talk programs, The Morning Shift and The Afternoon Shift, and was a full-time producer with the morning program since 2007, when it was called Eight Forty-Eight, and has produced segments for the program since he began in early 2003. He worked with the show’s contributors, and producing music, film and technology segments. Joe also provides production and editorial assistance to Filmspotting, a radio version of the popular weekly film discussion podcast that airs Friday and Saturday nights on WBEZ.

Prior to joining WBEZ, Joe was station manager and music director at Triton College’s radio station, WRRG 88.9 FM. There, he was an adjunct faculty member teaching radio.

Originally from Oak Park, Joe resides in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.

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